Shoe-fastening



(No Model.)

G. A. WELD.

SHOE FASTENING.

No. 452,403. Patented May 19,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE A. WELD, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 170,452,403, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed November 29, 1890. $erial No. 373,085. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WELD, of IVinchester, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Fastenings, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

Myinvention relates to clasps for boots and shoes, the object being to simplify the construction and to reduce the cost of the same. This object I attain by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan showing a blank from whichthe plate of the clasp is made. Fig. 2 is a plan showing a blank from which the tongue is made. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the plate and tongue formed and combined ready for use. Fig. 4 shows one of the tongues in perspective, formed as for use. Fig. 5 shows one of the plates in perspective, formed as for use. Fig. 6 is a modified form for a plate-blank.

The blank for the plate is formed as shown in Fig. 1, and is a modified form, as shown in Fig. 6. In both figures, Arepresents the plate as a whole; B and B, the side members, and O the central orspring member. These members are bent in dies or otherwise so as to conform to the shapes indicated in Fig. 5. The spring member 0 may, if desired,have a start or projection D, the use of which will be ex plained. The tongue blank is formed as shown in Fig. 2 and is curved into the shape shown in Fig. 4 and adapted to be joined to the plate A, so as to form, when thus combined, the device indicated in Fig. 3.

The members B B of the plate A (see Figs. 1 and 5) are bent, so as to form by recurving recesses b b. The extension of the said members B B beyond the recesses form rests or supports for the take-up plate when the fasteniugs are in use. By this arrangement and formation of the members B B and G of the plate A, I am enabled to make the whole of a single piece of metal, thereby saving in cost and adding to strength and durability.

The small projections a a, Fig. 1, are stops intended to prevent the tongue from becoming forced accidentally out of place.

In one part of the tongue T areoessD may be formed, as indicated, or, instead of a recess, a hole may be punched through it.

The function of the projection D and recess d is to assist in holding the tongue T in place when in use. This holding takes place from the fact that the projection D on the springplate 0 enters the recess d in the tongue T, as shown in Fig. 3.

In order to stiffen the plate A, its outer edges may be turned at right angles, as indicated.

I claim- In a shoe-fastening, the combination of a plate A, having side members B B recurved so as to form recesses 79 b for holding the tongue in place and extending beyond said recess for the purpose of forming rests for the take-up, and having a central spring member 0, which has a recess 0, bent, as described, so as to form, in connection with the curved parts of the side members, a strong elastic holding for the tongue T, and on the side members B B projections or stops a, so as to prevent the tongue T from becoming out of place in its backward movement, all being formed of a single plate of metal, as described, with the tongue T, having pintles ti, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE A. WELD.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, EDWARD S. DAY. 

